Shoe-fastening



(No Model.)

J. 0. CHAPMAN.

SHOE FASTENING.

Patented Dec. 22

INITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN C. CHAPMAN, OF BOSTON, MASSAOI-IUSE'TS.

SHOE-FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 465,753, dated December22, 1891.

Application filed April 25, 1891- Serial No. 390,502. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that L -JOHN O. CHAPMAN, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State ofMassachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inDevices for Fastening Shoes and other Articles of Apparel, of which thefollowing, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is aspecification.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my invention as applied to ashoe, and shows the side opening closed, with straps to button on theknob and angle-guides fastened to the side plates of the opening. Fig. 2is a perspective View showing the same applied to a low-cut shoe open,with the opening side plates, clasp, guides, knob, and a strap. Fig. 3is a longitudinal section showing the side opening plates, clasp,slotted spring, bolt, nut, pin, rivet, stop-piece, and pivot-rivet. Fig.e

is a transverse section showing nut, bolt, clasp, the two side openingplates, and spring. Fig.

' and glove fastening;

5 is a longitudinal section showing the side opening plates, clasp, andknob. Fig. 6 is a plan showing the slotted opening plates andangle-guides.

My invention relates to a quick opening, closing, and time-savingmetallic shoe, boot, and it consists in the construction and combinationof parts, as hereinafter fully set forth and specifically claimed.

In the said drawings, A represents a boot or shoe, to the opening ofwhich, either at the side or front,I secure two plates a ahy means ofrivet-s or eyelet-fastenings d; or I may fasten these plates to elasticstrips sewed to the sides of the openings. The plates a ct are providedwith grooves or channels 0 and are preferably jointed or pivotedtogether at their lower ends at cl, a slot e being provided to enablethe side opening to be adjusted to 'suit the foot of the wearer. On eachplate a is riveted a guide f, and between these guides ff slides a claspB, having lips which slide in the grooves of theside plates a a, saidclasp B being made tapering, as shown. To the clasp B is secured a knobg, by which it can be moved up and down, as required, to close or openthe shoe. Over this knob are buttoned two straps h "L to hold the claspB in position when drawn up. \Vhen the clasp is slid down by the hand toopen the shoe, the tapering sides of its enlarged upper end are broughtinto contact with the guides ff, thereby pressing the side plates a a.apart to open the shoe as desired, holding them in this position whilethe shoe is being put on.

On the inner side of theclasp B is placed a spring 76, from the upperend of which proj sets a screw-bolt Z, which passes through an aperturein the clasp B and has screwed onto it a nut m, having a recess 10 inits top to accommodate a pin "12, passing through the bolt Z topreventthe nut from being lost, a sufficient space being left betweenthe bot tom of the recess 10 and the pin n to permit the nut to beloosened. This nut m serves to clamp the clasp B to the side plates atawhen the latter are opened to anydesired extent. The lower end of theclasp B is loosely secured to the spring by a rivet q, passing through aslot 7* in the spring, whereby the spring is enabled to more toaccommodate itself to the portion of the foot on which it bears.

s is a stop secured to the clasp B by the rivet q, said stop serving toprevent the clasp from being separated from the side plates at awhenever pulled up to its full extent.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A shoe-fastening composed of the side plates a a, pivoted together at(l and provided with grooves, the angle'guides f f, the knob g, straps h'i, and the clasp B, adapted to slide upon the side plates a a,substantially as set forth.

2. A shoe-fastening composed of the side plates a a, pivoted together at(l and provided with-grooves, the angle-guides f f, the knob g, straps h2', sliding clasp B, spring k, rivet q, stop .9, bolt Z, and nut m,substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses, 011 this 23d 'day of April, A. D.1891.

JOHN G. CHAPMAN.

Witnesses:

HARRY W. AIKEN, J. S. F. I-IUDDLnsroN.

